Photos Of The Week #47

November 22, 2013 13:30 GMT

Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond. For more photo galleries, see our "Picture This" archive.

1Olympic torchbearer Akhmetova Svetlana (center) waves as she holds the torch with the Olympic flame in Irkutsk on November 23. Russia is hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Caucasus city of Sochi. (AFP)

2U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives at Geneva International airport for talks between Iran and world powers on Tehran's disputed nuclear program on November 23. (AFP/Denis Balibouse)

3Religious figures take part in commemorations in Kyiv to mark the anniversary of Ukraine's 'Holodomor,' a man-made famine that killed at least 3 million people in 1932-33. (RFE/RL)

4Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan march during a religious procession in Tolosa on the eastern island of Leyte on November 18, over a week after the typhoon devastated the area. (AFP/Philippe Lopez)

5A man fumigates against mosquitoes through the streets of Lahore, Pakistan, on November 21. (Reuters/Mohsin Raza)

6European Union envoy Pat Cox (center) waves to supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko outside the hospital where she is being held in Kharkiv on November 22. Tymoshenko has called on people to go out onto the streets to protest against the government's decision not to sign a trade deal with the European Union, her lawyer said. (Reuters/Dmitry Neymyrok)

7Afghan girls play at an ancient place in Ghazni on November 22. Poverty and an ongoing insurgency by the ousted Taliban still pose a threat to the stability of the country. (AFP/Rahmatullah Alizada)

9An elderly man walks down an alley south of Tehran on November 21. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri)

10A prison officer stands guard as an inmate sweeps the ground inside female prison camp Number 22 in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, on November 21. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

11Members of Greenpeace hang a large poster of Dutch activist Faiza Oulahsen on the office building of Shell during a protest calling for the release of the "Arctic 30" in Rotterdam on November 21. Oulahsen was one of 30 people from 18 countries who were arrested after a protest in September at a Gazprom oil rig in the Arctic. (AFP/Martijn Beekham)

12Ukrainians gather around an EU flag on the town hall of the western city of Lviv on November 20. (AFP/Yuriy Dyachshyn)

13Students wearing gas masks and carrying fake guns made of cardboard participate in a demonstration on November 20 in front of the parliament in Sofia, Bulgaria, in protest at rampant corruption, low incomes and high unemployment. (Reuters/Stoyan Nenov)

15Olympic torchbearer Aleksandr Brylin (left) swims with his torch in the company of other ice-swimmers in the Amur River in the Far Eastern Russian city of Blagoveshchensk. Russia is hosting the Winter Olympics in the Caucasus city of Sochi in 2014. (AFP)

16A boy sits on a message asking for help written in an area damaged by Typhoon Haiyan in Palo, Phillipines. (Reuters/John Javellana)

17A masked man in Cairo aims his gun as he stands among fellow antimilitary demonstrators on November 19 marking the anniversary of protests in 2011 that ignited deadly clashes with security forces. (AFP/Mahmoud Khaled)

18In Poland, a visitor walks between electric barbed-wired fences at the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial and former concentration camp on November 18. (Reuters/Kacper Pempel)

19A Pakistani boy wheels a cart in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad. His family fled the military operations in the western tribal areas. (Reuters/Zohra Bensemra)

20A deputy in the Ukrainian parliament steps on leaflets after a supporter of Yulia Tymoshenko threw the flyers (depicting the jailed opposition leader and signed "Free Yulia!") from a balcony during a parliamentary session in Kyiv on November 19. (AFP/Sergei Supinsky)

21Lebanese security officers adjust surveillance cameras at the entrance of the Iranian embassy in Beirut on November 19. Two suicide bombings rocked the embassy compound, killing at least 23 people, including an Iranian cultural attache. (Reuters/Hasan Shaaban)

22Children run as they play near a tree standing in front of fog over the central Bosnian town of Zenica in the Lisac mountain range.

23A woman walks out from a tent at a protest camp set up by supporters of jailed former Ukrainian Prime MinisterYulia Tymoshenko in central Kyiv.

24A man carries belongings recovered three days later from a building that burned down during sectarian clashes in Rawalpindi on November 15.